I have a VERY FRESH level 85 warlock who I want to get into PVP / BG's with and I'm not sure the best route to go.

Currently undergeared, a few hundred resilence at best.. mostly quest gear and so on.

I'm currently Affliction spec, but I really don't know what priority / spells to use.

I've been going with CoA > UA > Corr > Haunt > Immolate, using SB or drain life as my filler for over 25% health or using drain soul for under 25% health.

Any tips / recomendations on what spec / rotation to use for PVP?

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I find keeping Haunt on cooldown to be quite effective since it's a small heal and buffs your DoTs. I also like to put UA up first. It's basically dispel coverage. If you don't, you won't add much pressure since you'll get your spells spam dispelled. Fearing right after UA is placed can sometimes make the dispeller become locked out since they might overreact from the Fear and mistakenly dispel the UA.

Keep your DoTs up on multiple people. I find that to be the best way to add more value. You may lack the nuke capabilities of a mage but you're putting pressure on in different ways.

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Aff PvP is definitely a little more difficult no doubt. Keep at it and you'll start to develop the timers/debuffs/DoTs in your head and just know when to switch.

Remember to use your Deathcoil and Demonic Circle. Figuring out when to use them as offensive spells v. defensive spells is just as important. Demon Soul when you need the pressure going in for a kill.

One of the best uses of the circle I found was when I (stupidly) followed a warlock off of the ledge in the Sewers map, and then he ported up to the top where I couldn't touch him. Brilliant. I now know to look for it, but that sort of thing is still clever.

Kelaan wrote:One of the best uses of the circle I found was when I (stupidly) followed a warlock off of the ledge in the Sewers map, and then he ported up to the top where I couldn't touch him. Brilliant. I now know to look for it, but that sort of thing is still clever.

I ran afflic lock & Destro lock 2v2 for fun the other night, we won every match on blades edge map due to being able to portal up onto the pillars and then running anywhere from melee.

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Cogglamp wrote:Congrats! I can hear the cries of rogues and arms warriors everywhere already.

How's the DoT management coming along?

Still a little shakey..

I have played warlock pvp / raiding since BC but I've spent the last 6 months EXCLUSIVELY playing an arms warrior.. 1 dot required so.. completely different mental switch to go from 1 to the other.

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For Affliction warlock should we use the "on-use" or the "reaction / trigger" pvp trinket?

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I got the on use and just macrod it to Demon Soul since they're on the same CD.

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